The Giants won't defend their Super Bowl XLVI crown, and they didn't even get into the playoffs to give themselves a chance to do so. As they search for the reasons why, fiery safety Antrel Rolle is sorry for the result of the season.

"Just want to apologize for a letdown," Rolle said on WFAN today, addressing the team's fan base. "Unfortunately, we came up a little bit short this year. Something that pretty much caught all of us by surprise."

Rolle followed up with a vow for 2013, changing up the words he usually uses about playing "hungry" or with "more dog."

"Come the 2013 season, all I can do is just do my part and be a better player, ... and try the best that I can do to make sure the team is all on the same page, and that more importantly that we’re hunting," Rolle said. "That we’re going to hunt from the first preseason game all the way until the Super Bowl," if they make it there, he added.

Inconsistency plagued the Giants, who notched marquee wins against the 49ers and the Packers but stumbled down the stretch. They still had a chance to make the playoffs in Week 17, but they didn't receive the help they needed.

"If we had gotten in, I def would have loved it and I would have taken advantage of every opportunity that would have came along with it," Rolle said. "But I've always been the kind of guy that I really don’t like anything being handed to me. If I'm going to go in and get something, I would rather get it on my own."

The only part of the Week 17 scenario that the Giants could control was their outcome against the Eagles. They dominated their division rivals with a 42-7 win, but Rolle admitted he wasn't sure which Giants team would show up that day.

"To be honest with you, I really didn’t know what to expect," he said. "I was hoping for that kind of outcome and that kind of heart and that kind of sense of urgency going into our final game of the season, but to be honest with you, was I confident? No, I wasn’t too confident, just because I didn’t know what to expect. I really didn’t know what to expect."

"We have to attack the game, and we just didn’t do a great job of doing that on a consistent basis," Rolle said. "We’ve had the same defensive coordinator now for three years. You’ve seen us at our very best, and then you’ve also seen us at our worst. So it’s all a matter of what are we going to go out there and do that day? How are we going to go out there and perform? Are we going to be hungry? Are we going to go out there and play with heart? Are we going to go out there and play like wild dogs? That’s the question that’s still up in the air, why were not able to do that on a consistent basis."

Rolle also spoke about the up-and-down season of secondary teammate Corey Webster.

"There were moments when I think Corey played great, and there were moments he didn’t play so great," Rolle said. "It happens, and you just hope things like that never happen, but it does happen. Corey is a better player, a much better play than he showed this year, and I have all the confidence in the world Corey is going to bounce back from that. Do I think he had a bad season? No, I don’t think he had a bad season. But I don’t think he had the season we all know Corey is capable of having."